Religion is to keep you "safe" (for a given value of 'safe') NOT to make you think
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
Religious disorder
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Religion is to keep you "safe" (for a given value of 'safe') NOT to make you think "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
Brevity is the soul of wit.
I wouldn't want to say theists have a mental illness. Mental health is no guarantee against drawing false conclusions. To err is human, not psychotic. But it hasn't even been established that every theist is mistaken in what they believe. Do we know that? I don't and I choose to give people the benefit of the doubt rather than assume they are delusional.
Uggggh. There's no Capitions available in that video. Fuck my nonfunctional eardrums.
That video might be the one where it maps it to a certain part of the brain. Assuming we don't fall into an apocalyptic hellhole in the next decade, science should have it pretty much diagrammed. A scientific explanation ain't gonna impress a theist, but it will depreciate the value of theism.
As a form of insanity; I would guess more from willful pattern than chemical imbalance like this psychopath. I have that official classification. To read the words of the prophets is to simulate an insane mind - yeah, you can go loopy from that, I'm thinking - but for the most part it seems psychosomatic. There are questions the theist answers with "god," rather than explore uncomfortable, dark corners of the mind. Like capacity of self for infamy, or loss of identity at death, or the fact that right only means dexter.
Psychosis has nothing to do with erring. It has everything to do with being clinically delusional.
RE: Religious disorder
January 23, 2012 at 7:36 am
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2012 at 7:40 am by Rokcet Scientist.)
You can err without being delusional. It doesn't mean the same thing.
RE: Religious disorder
January 23, 2012 at 7:43 am
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2012 at 7:44 am by Rokcet Scientist.)
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